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Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado, Boulder

Disaster Zone Podcast

However, when it comes to working with people and their relationship and thoughts about all phases of disasters, it is the social sciences that can help us most understand and communicate with the people and populations we serve. She points to some of the excellent resources that the Natural Hazards Center has to offer.

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Crisis Communications as Damage Control

Disaster Zone Podcast

One only has to watch or read the national news to see crisis communications being practiced. In those situations you need to know something about crisis communications, the topic of this podcast. In those situations you need to know something about crisis communications, the topic of this podcast.

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Communications Challenges in the 21st Century

Disaster Zone Podcast

Take any emergency or disaster and you will find that communications is the key ingredient that needs to be present to have a successful outcome. Communications systems are changing rapidly to become lighter with more capabilities, including linking people and organizations with satellites. This is the topic for this podcast.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

There have recently been some natural hazard events of extraordinary size and power, but they are no more than curtain raisers. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent. We must also grapple with complexity and intersection with other forms of threat and hazard.

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Conversation with a Documentary Film Maker about Volcanic Risks_mixdown

Disaster Zone Podcast

His unforgettable experience on the mountain fueled a life-long desire to communicate his own story and those of other eyewitnesses in an independent dramatic documentary, “THE FIRE BELOW US: Remembering Mount St. Caught in the second largest eruption, the camera crew barely escaped with their lives.

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FEMA Administrator Visits Univ. of CO’s Hazards Center

Recovery Diva

An excerpt: “Among the research topics that could support the agency’s resilience goals are work related to climate migration, risk communication and refining social vulnerability indices. These are issues that are central to the work of CU researchers in IBS and across the university, including in engineering and the physical sciences.

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7 Best Practices for Emergency Managers

everbridge

By recognizing that hazards, including severe weather events, are unpredictable and cannot be completely prevented, emergency managers can instead focus their efforts on promoting a resilient organization. A community is resilient when it can recover from a disaster or other stressor and get back on its feet as quickly as possible.